Image Club's popular catalog is distributed to over 8 million readers annually! Image Club Graphics, Inc. In 1985, I started a little company called Image Club Graphics with a start-up capital infusion of a drafting table and some 'borrowed' office supplies from the only real job I ever had. I was fired from that job - they actually accused me of taking office supplies! Imagine that! I had leased one of the first 300 dpi laser printers ever sold in Western canada. The printers were new technology, and I was utilising it as a typesetter for my struggling graphic arts company. The new technology looked so promising, that I made a prediction that this thing was going to revolutionise the publishing industry. In response to a great void in decent software for the new industry, I began creating desktop publishing content software and marketing it via direct mail and advertising. I never looked back. Today (well, as of about 1995) Image Club distributes over 12 million software catalogs to it's customers world wide. With sales topping $20 projected for 1996, Image Club is very well known and respected in the industry as a successful direct marker and software developer. Image Club made the Profit magazine's Profit 100 list twice, and recently won the "most profitable" category. Image Club has nerve had an unprofitable year since it's incorporation 11 years ago, and has funded it's growth from profits and never debt. In 1994 I sold Image Club Graphics to Aldus Corporation Later that year merged with Adobe Systems of Mountain View, California making Image Club a part of the second largest software company in the world. Image Club's Web Site can be viewed at: www.imageclub.com First company to introduce 'vector based' clip art which soon became the standard format (1986) First company aside form Adobe to introduce a PostScript fonts package (1987) First company on the market with EPS clip art (1987) First company to introduce a commercial CD ROM product for the Macintosh (1988) First company to distribute clip art by CD ROM (1988) First company to offer stock photography on CD ROM (1988) Inventor of now standard CD ROM encryption technology called "Vendor" (1989) First company to distribute fonts on CD ROM (1989) Has never had an unprofitable year Managed an AVERAGE growth rate of 50% per year for 10 years Funded growth from profits and never debt The popular Image Club catalog boasts a circulation of over 700,000 per month making it five times larger than most current graphic arts specific magazines. It also surpasses the circulation of more general computer magazines like Macworld magazine. Won the Profit 100 award as one of Canada's 100 fastest-growing companies in 1993 and 1996. Read about it! Prior to 1994, Image Club was ranked 82nd in the Financial Post Magazine Top 100 Software Companies in Canada, and currently is ranked 32 in Canada Image Club differentiates itself in their commitment to solving their customer's design needs. Along with providing the essentials such as a 30 day no risk guarantee on all products, each shipment comes with guaranteed overnight delivery and free unlimited technical support. One of Image Club's innovations, the integration of a Tips and Tricks Mini Magazine into it's monthly catalog, also provides dozens of helpful design techniques and inspirational samples. Met with overwhelming enthusiasm by customers, the catalog has helped to establish ICG as a design partner. .